News #87
- A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout
- Post-Architecture: Premature Abstraction Is the Root of All Evil
- GitHub – quackduck/devzat: The devs are over here at devzat, chat over SSH!
- Security Is Our Top Priority is BS
- GitHub – seddonm1/sqlite-bench: Code to accompany blog post https://reorchestrate.com/posts/sqlite-transactions
- Exercise: Minesweeper in 100 lines of clean Ruby | Radan Skorić’s personal site
- pippy
- Debugging an evil Go runtime bug – marcan.st
- Radxa X4 low-cost, credit card-sized Intel N100 SBC goes for $60 and up – CNX Software
- Automerge CRDT | Automerge CRDT
- Multisatellite Data Depicts a Record-Breaking Methane Leak from a Well Blowout | Environmental Science & Technology Letters
- Recording DME with the LimeSDR – Daniel Estévez
- Foliate — E-book Reader for Linux
- Bézier curve arc length parametrizations – Curly Curves
- Argentina’s economy is growing beyond expectations | Semafor
- TSMC rides AI demand to raise revenue forecast, says no to US joint venture | Reuters
- GitHub – guywaldman/magic-cli: Command line utility to make you a magician in the terminal
- Win your fantasy league using operations research
- Modeling study proposes a diamond layer at the core-mantle boundary on Mercury
- GitHub – tcsenpai/qraro
- Inside an IBM/Motorola mainframe controller chip from 1981
- Andrej Karpathy on X: “⚡️ Excited to share that I am starting an AI+Education company called Eureka Labs. The announcement: — We are Eureka Labs and we are building a new kind of school that is AI native. How can we approach an ideal experience for learning something new? For example, in the case https://t.co/RHPkqdjB8R” / X
- GitHub – typst/typst: A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.
- SCALE documentation
- Teaching Programming with BASIC
- SAPwned: SAP AI vulnerabilities expose customers’ cloud environments and private AI artifacts | Wiz Blog
- Elligator | Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGSAC conference on Computer & communications security
- how to pwn a billion dollar vc firm using inspect element – eva’s site
- GitHub – Vexu/arocc: A C compiler written in Zig.
- Instrumenting Python GIL with eBPF | Blog | Coroot
- Mice live longer when inflammation-boosting protein is blocked
- research!rsc: Hash-Based Bisect Debugging in Compilers and Runtimes
- Devs Need System Design Tools, Not Diagramming Tools – The New Stack
- semiconductor laser – IEEE Spectrum
- mathematical pedagogy – How to choose a textbook that is pedagogically optimal for oneself? – Mathematics Educators Stack Exchange
- memory and ILP handling in 2D convolutions
- USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap | TechCrunch
- GitHub – randombk/llm2sh: Ask GPT to run a command
- Working with AI (Part 2): Code Conversion
- GitHub – rscott2049/DECstation2040: A RP2040 based DECstation emulator
- Optimizing a bignum library for fun – Austin Z. Henley
- China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week – ABC News
- GitHub – thegoodduck/NetSour
- New Technology to Control the Brain Using Magnetic Fields Developed
- Enhance Image Quality Up to 10x and 12K with AI
- BSOD error in latest crowdstrike update : crowdstrike
- The Greatest Educational Life Hack: Learning Math Ahead of Time – Justin Skycak
- How we sped up Notion in the browser with WASM SQLite
- [2003.10555] ELECTRA: Pre-training Text Encoders as Discriminators Rather Than Generators
- Is Mars Habitable?, by Alfred Russel Wallace
- [2407.10240] xLSTMTime : Long-term Time Series Forecasting With xLSTM
- Is openSUSE at crossroads? – Homo Ludditus
- Prover-Verifier Games improve legibility of language model outputs | OpenAI
- Mistral NeMo | Mistral AI | Frontier AI in your hands
- Jailbreaking RabbitOS: Uncovering Secret Logs, and GPL Violations | Blog
- Package: lang/scheme/impl/pseudo/
- Nation-State Actors Targeting Software Supply Chain via GitHub | Panther
- A brief interview with AWK creator Dr. Brian Kernighan
- Search.gov Home | Search.gov
- mutable.ai on X: “Leapfrogging traditional vector-based RAG with language maps ” / X
- Reverse-Engineering an IP camera – Part 1 | Alex Porto
- Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance is GA | Google Cloud Blog
- Releasing an album on floppy disk | Michael Gale
- Invalid SMILES are beneficial rather than detrimental to chemical language models | Nature Machine Intelligence
- The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements | ANU College of Science
- Java Virtual Threads: a Case Study – InfoQ
- Deluge of Fake Mac App Store Reviews
- Vulnerable transistors threaten to upend Europa Clipper mission | Science | AAAS
- FAQ – Let’s Encrypt